Jia Mo, an analyst at Singapore-based market research company Canalys, said the delayed prod
mers eat at a hotpot restaurant in Wuhan, capital of Hubei
In addition, a thread on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like comments platfor
m, titled “eating alone” contains 226,000 posts and has garnered 290 million hits.
In 2017, WithEating Magazine, a Chinese foodie journal, started its Eati
ng Alone channel on Bilibili, a popular video-sharing website. To date, the channel, wh
ich has 52 episodes explaining how to prepare meals for one, has attracted more than 200 million hits.
In February, the magazine published a book of the same name, listing 65 recipes for dishes ranging fr
om desserts to foreign cuisine, such as roasted ribs, the Korean favorite bibimbap and seafood curry.
To many people’s surprise, it became a best-seller. “We didn’t expect the book to sell so we
ll. We didn’t print enough copies initially,” the magazine said on its Weibo account last month.
The resident of Chengdu, Sichuan province, is a popular vlogge
and his reviews of digital appliances have won him more than 124,000 fans on social media.
He had never eaten hotpot alone before. However, he happened to be in
Beijing on business and when he heard the restaurant offered stuffed toys as co
mpanions for solo diners he decided to visit and produce a vlog so his fans would know how it felt.
Knowing that a large number of unattached people often
spend festivals alone, Pu hoped his vlog would help them enjoy their solitude.
Even though he was the only solo diner in the restaurant, Pu said he didn’t feel at all awk
ward eating with a toy companion. The vlog showed him eating casually, occasionally scrolling through his phone, an
d having a video chat with his family. The restaurant was full of diners, but no one gave him a second glance.
“Overall, it was very enjoyable; the only thing was that I can’t eat too much so I only ordered a small amount of food,” he said.
ourage the innovation of original technologie
and enhance intellectual property right protection, Xi said. He called on
the governments to build a stable, fair and transparent business environment, and to he
lp private enterprises and small and medium-sized companies to address their difficulties in finance.
Governments in the central region should attract advanced manufacturing enterprises moved from the coastal reg
ion, take part in Belt and Road international cooperation, enhance the protection of the environment, create m
ore jobs for poverty reduction and make relevant policies to support the rise of the central region, Xi said.
hina will further open and reform its markets, as well as facilitate a predictable busin
ess environment to help companies improve their ability to respond to risks, said the Ministry of Commerce.
He said China firmly opposes this and hopes that the US w
Reportedly, the United States administration is considering extending its attacks on
Chinese companies by blacklisting China’s largest surveillance equipment manufacturer Hikvision.
If so, Hikvision — which has about 20 percent of the global market share and has been the
leading player in the industry for seven consecutive years — will become the fourth Chinese company Wa
shington has targeted after the telecommunications companies ZTE and Huawei, and drone maker DJI.
Unlike the previous three companies, which the US administrat
ion has justified the attacks on with the excuse 2019/05/22/shangjianxiachuicn-3/it is protecting national security, the premise for
setting its sights on Hikvision, which serves customers in more than 150 countries, including the US, is t
improved markedly. Their population has grown fro
rom about 2 million in the 1950s to about 13 million, and their religious rights and practices are protected by the law.
Nor would it adopt a double standard and criticize China’s efforts to counter terrorism and extremism. Last year, tourists fr
om home and abroad paid more than 150 million trips to Xinjiang, thanks to the improved security situation in
the region. That Xinjiang has not witnessed any violent or terrorist incidents in recent years proves the effect
iveness of the joint efforts of the government and local people in maintaining regional peace and stability.
Xinjiang is undoubtedly in its best development stage in histo
ry. Facts speak louder than words, but still they cannot wake up persons pretending to be asleep.
The targeting of Hikvision is just par for the course for the curren
t US administration, which is obsessed with impeding China’s development.
Father of slain student petitions court for death penalty
It’s been nearly a year since Xie Diao, a postgraduate student of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was stabbed seven tim
es to death by his high school classmate Zhou Kaixuan at a restaurant outside the school.
Xie Zhonghua, father of Xie Diao, has been immersed in grief in the past year: He often
dreamed of his son, but then would suddenly awaken and start sobbing uncontrollably.
The case will finally be heard in Beijing First Intermediate People’s Court on May 24. To get justice for his son, Xie Zhon
ghua took to the streets and publicized the case, gathering tens of thousands of signatures that he has su
bmitted to the court. He hopes that, through his petition, the court would sentence Zhou to death.
underlines legacy of Long Marchnping visits a museum mark
President Xi Jinping encouraged the Chinese people to be prepared for a new Long March to
ward national rejuvenation during a visit to a revolutionary base in Jiangxi province on Monday.
“We came here to the starting point of the Long March to exper
ience the situation of the Red Army’s departure during those years. Now there is a new Long
March, and we should make a new start,” Xi said at a memorial park in Yudu county, Ganzhou.
The Long March covered over 12,500 kilometers from October 1934 to October 1936. It was a military
maneuver carried out by the Red Army and led by the Communist Party of China to combat the Ku
omintang regime. The expedition, beginning in Yudu, laid the foundation for the Party’s victory.
On Monday morning, Xi visited the JL MAG Rare-Earth
Co and learned about the company’s production of rare earths and the development of the rare earth industry in Ganzhou.
On the heels of the United States government announcement it will ban unauthorized exports of US technology to Hua
wei, by Monday, a number of major US tech giants, including Google, had reportedly stopped supplies.
Amid the escalating tit-for-tat trade blows between the world’s tw
o largest economies, the US putting Huawei, the face of Chinese hi-tech progress, on its Ent
ity List is no doubt a calculated blow to hit China and Huawei where it hurts. “America will probably use its ability to with
hold components from Huawei as a bargaining chip in a future trade deal with China,” The Economist reckons.
Trump must turn over financial records to House, judge rules
A federal judge in Washington ruled Monday against President Donald Trump in a financial records dispute with Congress.
